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2016-12-09T17:22:09.000000Z
National Police Chiefs’ Council says 98 clubs named in alleged historical abuse of players aged from seven to 20Eighty-three potential suspects have been identified in connection with allegations of historical child sexual abuse in football, police chiefs have said, as the scale of the scandal conti...

2016-12-09T17:11:10.000000Z
Implications of the lack of financial support means there is little likelihood Britain will have a national wheelchair rugby team to compete with the best in Tokyo 2020So wheelchair rugby will not be funded for the Tokyo cycle. According to Liz Nicholl, the CEO of UK Sport, who gave me the news this...

2016-12-09T17:09:31.000000Z
I went to the first meeting between the clubs four years ago, and found it a deeply upsetting experience. I told myself then that I would never return to Stadium MKI’m not going on Saturday. I follow AFC Wimbledon everywhere, but not on Saturday. Not when they’re playing them, the enemy, the club th...

2016-12-09T16:51:46.000000Z
• Trainer still unsure if the Gold Cup favourite goes to Kempton• Theatre Guide on course for Welsh National after hard-fought winLike one of his dairy cows swishing away blowflies, Colin Tizzard dismissed all the questions here on Friday about his running plans at Christmas, and he did so with the ...

2016-12-09T16:07:15.000000Z
After Sergey Karjakin v Magnus Carlsen, the next bout was Karjakin v Garry Kasparov in a sharp war of words. The legend and former world champion Kasparov, defeated in his bid for president of the global chess body, Fide, lives in New York but did not attend a single session at the match site in Man...

2016-12-09T15:50:32.000000Z
In today’s Fiver: Sepp Blatter, Jürgen Klopp’s phone farrago and a stadium named WandaSwitzerland is nice at Christmas time. Well, The Fiver doesn’t know that for sure but it imagines a self-regarding, snuggly central European version of Hygge – Swygge? – without the deep-seated sense of unease but ...

2016-12-09T15:34:11.000000Z
• Real Madrid forward’s agents publish details of 2015 income online• Ronaldo has denied claims he used offshore companies in BVIThe agency representing Cristiano Ronaldo has published details of the Real Madrid forward’s income as evidence that he has paid all of his taxes, with the former Manchest...

2016-12-09T14:57:18.000000Z
• Liverpool goalkeeper’s error directly led to 4-3 defeat against Bournemouth• ‘The criticism was very harsh. Even the best make mistakes’ says KloppJürgen Klopp has told Loris Karius to ‘close his ears’ to external criticism following the Liverpool goalkeeper’s costly error at Bournemouth.The 23-ye...